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Despite reports to the contrary, it's starting to sound like Microsoft is very interested in offering a subscription-based version of Windows 10 that would effectively work the same way as Office 365. Indeed, a trademark for the term "Windows 365" has been unearthed and it was filed by Microsoft to the United States Patent and Trademark Office website.

In April of 2014, Microsoft officially retired Windows XP. But for corporations that still use the operating system for any number of reasons, Microsoft still offered the ability for companies to extend their service agreements through what they called a "Custom Service Agreement" (CSA). This CSA provides security updates to the OS, on a firm by firm basis, with contracts …

The GPU market seems to always be moving. With new products and new drivers showing up, performance can ebb and flow. PC World decided to freeze time, and test every current AMD or NVIDIA GPU in a marathon flurry of testing, giving us a snap shot, of how every GPU performs compared to one another today.

Seagate and Western digital have had a busy couple of weeks, fielding questions and concerns about NSA backdoors being planted into their hard drive firmware. While the both manufacturers assert that they had not knowingly provided access to their firmware, in reality, anyone could gain access to it by stealing it. Once your drive is infected though, it appears …

Windows 8 isn't perfect, but it got better with Windows 8.1. It sure would be a lot more perfect if it supported only a limited amount of hardware, versus pretty much every piece of hardware, but it wouldn't be Windows. It wouldn't be the heart and soul of every PC DIY build where one wants the most choice in …

If you're calling Lenovo's SuperFish Adware debacle dumb, you're just being nice. First they claimed it was a technology feature that benefited users. Then they turn tail, and throw the SuperFish Adware under the bus, when the entire Internet turned against them, and for good reason. Whoever thought this was a good idea, is definitely jobless right now.

Apple likes to be number one. Number one in profits, number one in sales, and now they are number one in the amount of vulnerabilities in both their desktop and mobile OS. I guess when they say that "Mac's don't get viruses" they might be sort of right. Instead, they might be easier to targets for hacks and exploits. Not …

Even though someone, we don't know who, but someone had good intentions (maybe) at Lenovo, when they voluntarily installed Superfish Adware on new systems, it ultimately backfired on them. When we reported on this, Lenovo reps were still maintaining that the software was some sort of a feature that helped you find things in Google searches. But of course, …

It was unfortunate when NVIDIA took away the ability to overclock their 900M series notebooks GPUs. Many of the gamingnotebooks that have this GPU inside, are targeted towards gamers, and enthusiasts. By removing the ability to overclock, it's very much like removing the "sport" button from someone's car. Especially if that someone will actually notice, and they did, …

If you're in search for a way to remove as much paper clutter from your life as possible, you might have come across OneNote 2013, which is a free app from Microsoft. It works very much like a notebook, except, it's all digital, and you're not killing trees (unless you print it). You can embed photos and if you're using …

NVIDIA really hasn't been having a good month. First, they had to deal with the backlash regarding the GTX 970 "Memory-Gate" issues, and now they've gone down yet another un-popular road of removing the capability to overclock NVIDIA GTX 900M notebook GPUs. Whether we use them or not, you never take an enthusiasts right to overclock man!

One of the cool things about any gaming event and expo, are the panels that you get to attend. To be able to talk to and interact with people in the industries, that are responsible for some of the work that you enjoy the most, can be an amazing experience. Especially if they are your favourite celebrities! That's why GottaCon …